Colvid and Sepsis - Genetics and the Immune System

genetics has such an influence on your immune system. Does that mean if you develop certain illnesses like sepsis or cavid, that you just have a sort of weaker genetically defined immune system? Well not always. The mantra in evolutionary biology is that adaptation comes at a cost. It's likely that the patients that we are seeing who are genetically susceptible to covet or cepsis are probably resistant to something else. But what we are teasing apart in covid and sepsis is more the genetic tweaking of the immune system to make it better at one thing and worse at another.